Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Educated in, or for the service of, the church.
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Examples
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If you know disco at all, Sylvester James was the singer with the church-bred voice that ranged from a rich baritone to the stratosphere.
Jesse Kornbluth: Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest 2010
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If you know disco at all, Sylvester James was the singer with the church-bred voice that ranged from a rich baritone to the stratosphere.
Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest 2010
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If you know disco at all, Sylvester James was the singer with the church-bred voice that ranged from a rich baritone to the stratosphere.
Jesse Kornbluth: Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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If you know disco at all, Sylvester James was the singer with the church-bred voice that ranged from a rich baritone to the stratosphere.
Jesse Kornbluth: Holidays '09: Ten Books I'll Bet No One Else Will Suggest 2009
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In 1954, Ray Charles Robinson, a church-bred, hillbilly-trained singer who'd made his early living aping Nat King Cole and Charles Brown, set randy, secular lyrics - "I Got a Woman" - to a spiritual hymn, and changed the course of popular music, "The Birth of Soul," a 53-song set of Charles's recordings from 1952 to 1959, traces this revolution.
What'd He Say 2008
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The Staple Singers 'ability to inject rousing gospel fervor into everything they performed struck a strong chord with listeners and introduced a large, secular pop-music audience to impassioned, church-bred music.
Expecting Rain 2010
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The Staple Singers 'ability to inject rousing gospel fervor into everything they performed struck a strong chord with listeners and introduced a large, secular pop-music audience to impassioned, church-bred music.
Expecting Rain 2010
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